Front and back of membership card for Sloopys nightclub, Fleet St, Dublin. Expiry date on card is April 1972.
See related post: Sloopy’s Night Club, Fleet St, Dublin
Some other 70′s Dublin Nightclub posts:
 Discos -1971 |
 Zhivago |
 Revolution Night Club |
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This is just amazing. I was only talking to my sister recently about our many trips to Sloopys and the good old days. If you were lucky enough to be in some of the pubs in town you might bump into Philip Campbell who always had a supply of entry discount cards.
Thanks Loraine, glad you like it. I had heard about Sloopys but was never in it. I know it was in Fleet St, but do you know if it was previously in D’Olier?
I don’t remember it being in D’Olier Street but I started going there in the mid 70′s.
Dubdoug: was that not the Tara Club in D’Olier St? Beside the Gas company?
I don’t know, I was never in Sloopys or Tara Club (honestly)!!
yeah the tara club was in D”olier street one of us would pay in and then go to the back to a fire door and let the rest of the lads in they never copped on to it they had some good bands there as well as a fairly decent disco
I was never in them either! But I used to get a bus in D’Olier right outside what I’m sure was the Tara. Me and Mickey Duffy (he used to do discos as a DJ – you probably remember him) were refused entry to Sloopys round about 1980, both for being drunk and too young… in no particular order.
sloopys was the for runner of rumours in o,connell street, same guy owned them? rumours from 1980 to 1998, went there all the time, then he started the viper room which is now called gypsy rose, anybody remember top cats/ la mirage,laugh, in parnell street?
Thanks for the info Stephen… looks like you can become our expert on dodgy Dublin night clubs!
there was worse than that , romanoffs beside the gate theatre, napoleons and the ace of clubs in rutland place and going back further mothers in Denmark street and bartons in parnell square and they are just for starters
i remember la mirage it was a dump
Top Cats/ La Mirage was the business. You’d be in top cats till 10pm then down to Mirage till 3am. Great music. The best of memories.
remember them all rumours was the business if you didn’t score there you were history as for la mirage a dump with a capital D
la mirage was dodgy alrite, high chrome stools and wall to wall mirrors, till they turned it into fibbers, role on the early ninties ye ha
Sloopy’s in my day was in d”olier Street. God I loved that place so many memories. It was so IN at the time really the In place in Dublin
Thanks Imelda. There is another post on Sloopys with pictures coming very soon .
Yes, me and my sister use to spend summers in Dublin 71- 74 and yes sloops was it, both D’Olier & Fleet St. Kathleen and Marian Evans, born in Ireland, parents immigrated to Toronto, Canada. Still love Dublin 70s disco scene. Lots of heartfelt memories.
I guess the summers for Kathleen and Marian Evans were 1969 – 72 oops my mistake. Anyways we then visited Dublin again, summers of 77 and 78. Zhivago was fairly popular then.
Hi so you visited Sloopys in D’Olier before it closed and moved late 1970. to Fleet st,1971 That summer I was there then; one of the best years of my life, loved it, I may have even had the odd dance with you…..
Hi folks, Sloopys started in D’Olier Street beside the Gas Co. The Tara Club was a new building
on the same site as Sloopys some years later in the 70′s. Sloopys was opened in D’Olier St.
by Michael Ryan & Michael Murphy in 1969 to 1971, and moved to Fleet St. in 71/72.
I put in the sound system in D’Olier St. and endened up being the DJ there. It was the best
Club in Dublin at the time and a great place to work. It was also where I met my wife Karen in 1970.
Still togeather 42 years later.
Regards to all the old members
Mike Wright.
Mike also had some Radio Caroline jingles which brought a unique atmosphere to the place and he was also one of the pioneers of Mobile DJ with all the gear in the back of his Green Jag.
Hi,
I remember going to Sloopy’s in 1970 when I first arrived in Dublin from England, I was invited by Michael Ryan to a party given there for Dana who had just won the Eurovision Song Contest with “All kinds of Everything” I then started the Zhivagio Club with Pat Gibbons who was the manager of the Quinnsworth Supermarket at 15 Baggot Street, he also had permission to rent the upstairs, so we opened it as a Night Club, I then introduced the first Disco lighting to the club, we did a promotion that attracted everybody including Televis Erne, we did their color trade test transmission. the Tara Club was opened by Charly Murphy who was our manager and leader singer of our resident group in the early day’s of Zhivago, the Tara Club was named after Charly’s wife, in those day’s, Monday night was the best night of the week in Zhivago, all of the showbands jammed there because it was their night of from touring the Country.
The Zhivago Club was truly an International success, we was very strict on the door, with a philosofy that everybody wanted to go where they in thery could not go. The only other but small club in those day’s was the Elisabeth Club, who’s owner I understand later found fame as a DJ and promoter in Marbella,Spain.
Freddy Bailey-now living in the U.S.A. . .
when i went to zhivagos jim “lugs”brannigan was on the door he once barred me for 2 weeks for calling him lugs i had some good times there though wasnt there a club at the bottom of that lane i think it was still running into the mid nineties but i cannot remember the name of it any ideas what it was called?
Sloopys : That place is etched in my sole, it was the place to be.
I was in Dublin in 1970-1971, then Dublin had the best night life in Europe. You queued to get in after pubs closed, and it cost 10/6 to get in at the door. (at is 52p to days money). Unlike today you can pay anything up to 70 euros to get into same standard of club.
The clubs had rules of conduct, and it worked, Believe it or not, they opened at around 10 pm closed 3 am there was no drinking, you asked a girl for a dance, and got 2 fast sets of music, followed by 2 slow dances if she liked you, that’s when you talked, (chatted up) and then may be if lucky she would stay with you for the rest of that night, and got to know each other. Then you got a date meeting her at McBurnnys with in the week , she would introduce you to her friend s, and yours to her, after some time every one was seemed to know each other, it was like one big party, each week end. And you could be with a different girlfriend each month!
It may sounds dull by today’s standards, but it was anything but dull, that party atmosphere seemed to spread from night club, to night club, Such as Zivagos, Tiffanys, and Star club. Add to that you had some of the best music of our time, and mixed with that bit of Irish crack. Dublin was buzzing.
Sorry to disagree with you Freddy but Charlie did not open the Tara Club. After Zhivago he managed the Revolution for a short time and then opened Good Time Charly’s in O’Connell Street in 1972. And yes, Monday nights were fantastic nights at Zhivago. People thought Charlie was crazy to book Philip and Skid Row to play there but they were a huge hit and were enjoyed by fellow musicians.
Tara Murphy.( now Cain and living in the U.S.A.)
Hi Mike,
Not sure what the protocol on this site is as I only came across it today,
Anyway here goes,
Are you the Mike Wright from Bath Ave?
PYE factory in Dundrum
Sister Helen “ of the white boots”
Mount Plesant Lawn Tennis Club record hop on Saturday nights mid sixties
Caffolas on Mespil Road beside Baggot Street bridge for Fish and chips on the
way home, sometimes sharing with the “Ladys of the Night” before they went on their beat across the canal
Radio Caroline radio officer mid Sixties
I could go on and on but maybe you are not that person?
Oh My God, My life has just flasher in frount of me, your 99% correct, London Bridge Road, and Radio Engineer on Caroline. You have the advantage over me, sorry to admit I just can’t place you at the moment, but I know I should and we’re not getting younger.
Step forward and reveal yourself !!!!!!
I hope its OK to name others here and if it hurts or offends in anyway then I apologise
This contact is too good to miss
Anyway to reveal
Our group comprised of
Tony Johnson Pembroke Road not the DJ he came later
David Booth Pembroke Road
Dessy Barnes Percy Place
Ken O Brien Percy Place
Gerry Byrne Percy Place
Pat Cambell Haddington Road he did the mural on the wall on the way downstairs into the 5 club
And myself I lived in Ringsend, I am or rather was the one with red hair
more grey now
I often walked home with either you or Helen as far as the bridge
Shall we continue?
Well I’m enjoying the journey so far, so carry on. By the way the only one on your list that I met up with for the first time in 40 years was Ken O’Brien about a year ago. Glad to say he is still the same very funny guy. I wonder if you remember
Paula Bond and Antoinette both from Harolds Cross who also went to Mountpleasant LTC. I’ve met up with them a few times for lunch in the last few years. So tell me more Gerry, I’ve just sat down with a cup of tea !!!!
Could’nt help notice all the memories of Sloopys but what of pre Sloopys
My time started early sixties I was attending Kevin street college, met Tony and then Dave,
At that time the in places were the lawn tennis clubs
Mount Plesant LTC or the Overend hall in Leeson ST for Saturday Nights
Percys (St Marys Belmont Ave ) alternative was Claremount in Sandymount for Sunday Nights
Tempelouge LTC for Thursday Nights
Then ventured to the Stella Mount Merrion
One night heard of a new club about to open we called them Beat clubs ( they were in cellers of buildings) called the 5 club There had been a beat/celler club on Burgh Quay but it was either closed down or was unavailable I think it was called Sound City anyway went to the 5 and wow this was what it was all about
As I was going to Kevin Street and the 5 was just around the corner and like you had done a bit of electrical work for the O Briens I had free membership so I went 7 nights a week
After the 5 came the Moulin Rouge, Club a GoGo, The scene, Club Arthur lots of others and then Sloopys in Dolier Street
Alas different people had moved on including myself
When did you go to Caroline 65/66/67?
Dublin became stifling for us and we went our different ways
Myself Tony and Dave went to chase the dream in England but found it wasn’t as good as Dublin Tony and Dave went to the Isle of Man I stayed on in England (I was in love but it didn’t work out) by 69 I knew I wanted to be in Dublin and returned
Everything had changed the clubs were now Nightclubs ( the Revolution, Zhivagos Powers Hotel and the Fleet Street Sloopys)
The magic of the Sixties had died
This is all great stuff, I was also going to Kevin Street From ’61 to ’65. and on the
way home on Wednesday nights I used to go to the Overend Hall Leeson St. The Chessmen played there every Wednesday, a great band with Alan Dee, Bobby Bala, John Sullivan etc. about ’63 or 64. After Pye in Dundrum I went to Radio Caroline in 1966 and was with them until it closed down in March ’68 . It was the
Best Job in the World anyone could have and the best time of my working life. Well after all it was the Swining Sixties. I was with RTE Radio for over 30 years and I retired in April 2010. my email address is ei2dj at eircom.net If you drop me a note I’ll give you my phone number and we can have a good chat.
Hi Mike please check your email address it wont work for me
Hi Gerry, I just sent myself an email and it’s working OK did you replace at with @
Also a big Hello to Dave Baker good to see you are still around LOL regards
from Karen and myself.
Hi Mike
Joan and Ann have told me they see you some times. Hope you are keeping well John and myself go to Las Vegas and Huntington beace Cal most years ”kids out in a candy shop” lol
But hes slowing down a bit and did not come with me last year, hope he can get out of the zimmer frame this year lol.
A lot of old names and it seems a few are still around lol
Mike, thanks very much for that info, paticularly regarding the 2 locations. I have some other pix and old newspaper ads so I will be doing a new post on Sloopys very soon. I read in one old magazine article that it could handle 2000 people a night!
I was never in it myself so really good to get that insight from you. If you had to pick one record from your time in Sloopys, what would it be?
I don’t think it could hold 2000 maybe 1200 to 1500, It was the IN club in Dublin at
the time, and the queue for it used to go down D’Olier Street and around the corner
into Hawkins Street up as far as O’Reilly Pub at times, Great Buzz and Memories it
was the BEST. As regards a record it’s so hard to say, I suppose, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam, It was a Number One on both sides of the Atlantic for weeks.
I worked in RTE Radio until I retired 2 years ago. About 8 years ago on a program that I was the technician, a guest who was interviewed came over to me afterwards and said “Hi Mike I remember you as the DJ in Sloopys when I first came to Dublin to work for the ESB”.
It was Charlie McGettigan of Eurovision fame. We had a nice chat and both agreed that Sloopy’s was the best place in Dublin at the time. I met him again last year at the Paul McCartney Gig in the RDS and caught up on all the “crack”. One of life’s nice guys.
I worked in Sloopys in the cloakroom then floor manager and warm up dj for Don Rylands till it closed moved to the 2 Ages on the quays only went to the new Sloopys once did not like it, then managed Le Disk in Molesworth St and Seezers in Abbt st. ”Bring Back The Good Old Days”
PS
Glad to see Mike Wright is still with us lol
Thanks for that info David. Did you see the post about Seezers? All the nightclub posts are now under one category. http://brandnewretro.ie/category/clubs-pubs/ *link updated 9/3/03
We’ve still some more 70s Nightclub info to post but don’t have anything (yet)on Le Disk. I like the name.
Le DIsk was in Molesworth st, Business People and lots of AerLingus Staff before leeson st got going. Managed ir from pre opening. Seezers was to get a wine lin but did not and was a flop it was owned by Eamonn Andrews Studios which owned the TV Club. The TV Club was a dance Hall and had one club night The New Spotlight Monday Nights on that night they had the best of gigs Status Quo, Linda Martin and Chips, Rob Strong and all the club workers would go cause most clubs did not open Mondays,
Number 5 Club Leeson st Par Egan was the DJ.
The Moulan Rouge s Great Georges st owned by the same guy as the 5 Club the only club in Ireland to have a full sized swimming pool they were trying to copy the Valbon Club In London.
The Green Lounge St Stephens Green young people Sundays Only.
Hope you find this a little usefull i could go on and on lol its my age lol
Anyone who remembers the 5 Club is over 65 now lol.
Great stuff David. Very interesting. Swimming pools et all. Thanks very much.
did u no my dad Bernard flood worked as door man in the 70s
Hi Helen
I would have known him but it was a long time ago lol The Head door guy was Dave O’Hanlon
Did u no Joyce quinn
Dave I was told my dad got shot at on the door don’t no if this is true ?
My friend David Baker above would certainly be the person to ask about Dublin clubs of the ’60′s and ’70′s. He was involved in the club scene both as a manager and a member of many clubs during those years. He was a 5 nights a week club guy, I know, I was with him on many visits to the 5 Club, Arthurs, Sloopy’s, Moulan Rouge, Green Lounge, Zhivagos and many more. Good times were had by all and I met my wife in Sloopy’s like Mike Wright above also. Dave still likes the clubs but now they tend to be in Las Vagas or Huntington Beach, L.A. !
Do you remember when sloopy was in fleet strret the other club down the lane beside it was called the apartment
the doormen in the apartment were very strict members only and all that mullarky my sister was a regular there i think the head bouncers name was roy but bubbles was better and it closed later
i don’t believe it mike wright on-line. i’ll have to return on this soon. i managed it for a while so much to say
philip tobin
Nice to touch base with you again Philip ! – Looks there’s a few of us around still, with great stories and memories !!
Hi
I had put this up elsewhere, but there seems to be more life in here
Fantastic to see Sloopy’s posts !!!
I DJ’d there, for about 10 great years, from 1979 – 1988?, during which time it changed owners, changed managers and changed DJs …. but i remained through it all !! and it also changed its name to ‘Jaggers’ and eventually closed, in the late 80′s. I then moved with the TR7 driving manager (a great great guy) Denis Hickey (ex-Zhivago), to his new Club in Stepaside (Club Apres).
I also DJd during those years, at Bubbles, the Afrospot, the Apartment, the Harp, Blooms and more – I was fortunate indeed !!
does anyone remember going to tiffanys nightclub in church lane derek nally was the regular dj or good time charlies in o connell st it was beside the carlton cinema i remember going to them all there was so many of them bartons in parnell sq in the early seventies,napoleons, the ace of clubs, and kojaks used to be the revolution they were in rutland place off parnell square then if you could afford it sloopys/zhivagos clares and of course if you wanted to really go upmarket then joys in baggot st or up to the strip bojangles and never forget one of the best rumours in o connell st below the gresham hotel those were the days
Hi Steve, you seem to be the only one left still living apart from myself that remembers Napoleons Nite Club on Rutland Place. It was situated up the lane between the Ace Of Clubs and the Revolution. I worked there as a Dickie Bow Doorman in the late 70′s for 18 months ’til it was burned out by ??? Probably knew you then if you were a regular
i was a regular on a sunday night it was a dodgy place though, the revolution becams kojaks, i reckon i went to every night club in the city do you remember romanoffs next door to the gate theatre now that was very dodgy indeed this list is endless rumours was a great spot, tuesday nights free before 11 packed and all pints £1 the so called clubs are in the halfpenny place in comparison to then
Denis was one of the nice guys in the club group years after i seen him in a supermarket and he had opened his club Apres went to his club that weekend and had a great night talking about the clubs and some of the nuts involved lol
ps
the pic at the top of the page look a lot like Butlins main dinning room lol
Thanks for that David – gr8 stuff indeed – is Denis stil about i wonder ? Same question applies re Michael Ryan & Michael Murphy [who i worked for at Sloopys and Good Time Charlies, Howth...now also a long extinct Club !], and Krish Naidoo… and Derek Walsh, who also managed the Afrospot & Bubbles (& Peekers … & Barcode?) – any of these great guys still around ?
Krish ran mylords and ladies hair salon in dame court with his wife when he came to ireland and was a punter for a long time,after the new sloopys he ran the miss world here for a few years, the ones i think are still around are don rylands (pr and dj sloopys) gay o,driscoll (am sloopys dublin footballer) noel halpin (gm sloopys/two ages) and mike wright and i hope a lot of punters of sloopys who would fill the phoenix park for a week if they got together lol
”Thats All For Now Folks”
Fantastic stuff David … I worked for Krish at Sloopys, and later at Rumours… i actually think he is on the board of Blackburn Rovers FC now too btw ?
i remember krish nadoo when i went to rumours tuesday night was always packed it was free before 11 night a great place to go done some serious partying there
i remember going to good time charlies in o Connell street in the same building as the carlton cinema
My da Bernard flood worked there on the door .
did he have a brother called davy flood from finglas?
I have photos of sloopys in the 70s if anyone wants them id be happy to copy for them
Yes please
ya, I was there then, love to see them if the year was 1970 after that Sloopys in fleet street closed, I was at the last night, I think it was about September 1970.
i was working there on the last night and the staff party the following week it was fun times. i will pull out the old photos and put them up on facebook.
Photos; Thanks David , But I don’t use face book for reasons of my own security. I have traveled and worked round the world since the days in Ireland, as an artist. I use to do water colour paintings of all the street lamps in Dublin sold every one! Most at Stevens Green, and Merrion square, and my prints was selling for 20 years. All thanks to the days and nights I had there, (etched in my sole) but I sometimes wounder what happen to the people I knew then, It was the culture/time that of love, joy, and hart-brake, that makes movies, what best sums it up is the song Na-na-ha ha kiss kiss good bye. Thanks again
David, I’d say they’d be perfect for this site? Would love to see them and use them up as a post.
Im doing gigs tonight but will pull them out and scan them on Sat. Where do i send them.
David
I was told my dad got shot at on the door don’t no if this is true ?
My name is Helen flood Hughes
No one was ever shot at the old sloopy’s. If he was it must have been the new one which i know nothing about.
David
does anyone remember dave and geno from the apartment,dave had a big motorbike,and geno was goin out with blonde bird….
does anyone remember dave and geno from the apartment,dave had a big motorbike,and geno was goin out with a blonde bird….
Hi Kieran Keogh
Nice to see you rembering Derek Walsh worked at sloopy’s then went on to open Afrospot , Bubbles Peekers Night club and The TOP HAT and yes he is still around and going strong Last big club was GM in Barcode up until 1 year ago now in the Hotel Game .
Thanx Darryl – I DJ’d for him at most of them at some stage !! If you see him please say hello from me !
Kieran I remember you in Sloopys. I was always there with my friend Ursula Stowe
Your memory is good so Deirdre
I was in good company DJing there. They were great days !!! Do you remember the other jocks – Tony Dixon, Simon Young, Greg Merriman, Pat & Gerry O’Keefe/Clarke, Martin King… to name but a few !
I’m VJing at Roxys at the Arlington now, so anyone that remembers me DJing @ Sloopys/Apartment/Bubbles/Afrospot/Blooms/The Harp/Rumours etc etc … are welcome of course at Roxys – I play all the music videos there from those great days – check it out !!
Yes, I remember most of them and talk to Simon a lot still., I was talking to Martina Clarke earlier in a forum, she used to work in the up stairs wine bar in Sloopys back then,.
Would be nice to have a REAL Sloopys re-union some night !! Jazz funk style !!! Pop in to Roxys sometime so & say hi !!
Really enjoyed reading everyones reminiscing about the good ol days, and thats exactly what they were. The Club scene today hasn’t a patch on the 80′s or 90′s. From Top Cats/La Mirage, Rumours, The Apartments, The AnnaLivia in Abbey street, Appleannies on the keys, The Fleet, etc etc. Everyone knew everyone. Hardly any fighting, and if it was it was only fisticuffs,ha. Nothing like todays scene. You could go out for the night on 50 pounds and come home with change, and that was including your drink for the night, your burger and chips afterwards and a taxi home, although most of us walked home cos it was safe. I’d love to see a huge reunion, bring back the good ol days for just one last time.
If I had my way, such a re-union would be a regular occurrence !
Great words Marian – and you speak the truth of course re the entertainment and social scene — the present is not a patch on that past ….
Watch this space !
David Baker…..Heartbeat Radio?????
If you have pics of Tiffanys I’d be amazed……..
Gerry Kelly……
Ger Parkes/ABC Radio
myself and a big crowd from cabra went to sloopys every fri/sat/sun in the mid 70s derek nally was the regular dj great spot
A Bouncer was Shot at “The Cuckoos Nest” Parnell Square
This used to be “The Town and Country Club”
and I remember it as ” Romanoffs” it was a great place for a while……..
Remember ” Good Time Charlies” on O’Connell Street????
Jeeze……I’m really getting old……..
To all; please keep this site going, I am enjoying, and I have feeling someone is going visit it that I know!
As to getting old; May be its because I am artist. But when I think to back to 1970 in my mind’s eye, the girls I remember then are still in their twenties, just as beautiful, and they have never aged. It’s like looking at the one you love, you don’t see her as she is, you see her as the day you met her and first fell in love. And just like in our dreams we still run around, and play as we use to do. We are all only old on the outside, and how others see us, but our sprites never age. It was not 40 years ago it was yesterday when we talked, closed our eyes and seen the faces of the ones we once knew then.
Very very true Jim, I’m still only 22 !!!
george best had something got to do with good time charlies the last time i was in there was new years eve 1978
If you were a Townie you will remember ABC Radio broadcasting from The Ivy Rooms Hotel in Parnell Street……
Great Times…….Great Memories………..Free Radio………
Gerry Kelly / Ger Parkes ABC Radio
my earliest was tiffanys in church lane great pulling on friday and sunday night and then we started going to sloopys and the revolution as we got older those were the days all those clubs mothers,bartons,napoleons,the ace of clubs.romaninoffs,good time charlies,the apartment,the tara club, zhivagos, and then the strip in lesson street the list is endless the pulling /dancing capital of the world
Spot on! I have a large print of the membership card hanging in my den, put some 70s music on and it takes me back, like Austin Powers meets Mrs Brown.
they havent a clue how to party these days then there was none of the lunacy that you have now do you remember lloyds pub in north earl street
Ya; see my reply on the 20th Jan That was the life I lived in Glasnevin then, had landlady like Mr Brown, a girl friend that was pour ‘Glam’ looked like Sally Fields, I drove a mine cooper,night clubs wed, sat night, Tiffanys, Sloopys and I think I was in Llodys once or twice. who could ask for any thing more. Oh fishing when you needed a brake from work hard, play hard. yes there was jobs then,and drinking nights you could afford, no trouble, no larger louts, what happened!
lloyds was the first pub in dublin to put the price of a pint of lager (harp) to 50p that was in about 1975 they had a juke box upstairs and in the basebent the reg doorman was a guy called joe from raheny i think then it was straight down to tiffanys and if you had a bit more money you would go to the earl mooney across the road or the abbey mooneybecuse they were the only ones with jukeboxes
Gerry,
Are you the Gerry who I used to meet frequently in the clubs and was working for Chubb’s in the ’80′s and holidayed in Malta in, i think, ’75?
If so, great to see your brain is working far better than mine with your names and details from the past. For me those times are a bit of a fog in parts but lots of fun all the same with great memories of the clubs, the people I met in them and how less complicated life was (or seemed to be, anyway) back then.
As an aside, I owe a lot to my friend Dave Baker who got me into a number of the clubs for free (great when money was permanently in short supply) with VIP cards, especially Sloopys for which i had a membership card stamped with Michael Ryan and Michael Murphy’s names. This was like gold and it was a sad night when it was taken from me in Sloopys and torn up just because of … a girl!
Fun to look back at those times!!
Johnny McGouran
Girls were like that back then lol
Yes I am one and the same person now as Mike said reveal yourself, did you live in Pearse Street
did we do the Revolution a lot back then, that would have been 1970/71
Also can you place Dave Baker as he seems to be of that same fine vintage
Gerry
Im the good looking one lol
Male or Female? thats not good enough, we need a bit more than that to go on,
what vintage?
Started in Charville Nevin no5 Moulan Rouge, Worked in Overend Hall, Sloopys, Seezers, Le Disk, Eamonn Andrews Studios ect ect that should tell you the vintage lol OLD lol
if you did Charville and the Nevin I would have put you as the same vintage as me, but if you worked in the Overend I think you have matured just a little bit more,
nice to communicate with you, keep the memories coming
The Moulin Rouge also had a Sauna,
And just to add some colour to this discussion heres a little tale,
If you saw my previous comm’s with Mike Wright, the little bit of work included power for the sauna, myself and one of the mates arranged for a new ESB supply and when it was installed we connected the Sauna, being alone in the club, with the Sauna powered up for the first time we decided to try it, we had the users manual and duly did as it said, cold shower for starters, 5 minutes in the Sauna, then another cold shower, 5 minutes in Sauna, then another cold shower, by this time we were frozen so stayed in the Sauna for 30 minutes, finished, dressed and went home, great we thought our first Sauna, several days later when I called to the mate, he was in the fever hospital in clonskeagh, in total isolation, his throat was raw, at the weekend I had to bring him clothes so he could do a runner, he did survive.
well my ones a bit different i used the swiming pool to entertain girlfriends during the day when no one used the pool it was an interesting time lol
Hi Johnny,
I think I have you now, it took a lot of brainstorming and the Malta bit threw me, I married in late 74 so stopped going to the night clubs in Dublin as I was then living in Dunlaoghaire,
I was thinking of another person in the Pearse Street area, but couldn’t figure how he would know of Malta, then it came to me, I met you in Davy Byrnes one night in 75/76, brown leather jacket, You Me and Dave used to do Scruffy Murphs and the 51 before town, you had uprooted and gone up to Donegal, making wooden toys? you were just down for some business, Am I on the right track?????
Hi Gerry,
No, not me, you’re way off the track on this one, making wooden toys in Donegal sounds like something I would have liked to have done, for sure.
Just a few clues to jog the gray matter, I seem to remember you were on your honeymoon when I met you in Malta, I was there with my wife and another couple. Also, I was last talking to you around the early ’90′s when you were working on a Krause large-format imaging system in a place in Glasnevin industrial estate.
Is this making things any clearer?
The fog wont clear, I honeymooned in spain in 74, but Malta was 75, a large group of us for the SCUBA diving,and I did work in the pre print business in the 90′s, and a few places were in Glasnevin, but still can’t place you, we met a crowd from Drogheda in Malta, were you among them? or was it several years later on Majorca?
Hi Steve, Napoleons was indeed a dodgy place but was well run. U probably remember one of the owners Kieran Kiernan a great guy I think he was a Cabra man himself but lived in Malahide and the other owner Pat Hickey now the President of the Olympic Comittee